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Bordewijk and Kaam’s Matrix for the Four Communication Patterns: Transmission, Conversation, Consultation and Registration - from Interactivity: Tracking a New Concept in Media and Communication Studies by Jens Jensen (1998)

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"It is evident that journalists see the lack of holistic approach as an issue in the support for their well-being, as they have identified a range of improvements to existing systems (see Table 2 for an overview), which are consistent across the two samples, and in line with the theoretical discussions of what constitutes an effective workplace well-being system (Aldamman et al., 2019; Chou, 2015; Roemer and Harris, 2018; Roodbari et al., 2021). Primarily, there was a call for better formalised and structured organisational support which would enable fair and transparent support and show care for workers’ well-being. Suggestions, here, also included better training in emotional literacy for supervisors, enabling them to recognise their workers’ emotional challenges, adequately support them, and create a culture in which experiencing emotional labour is considered a normal part of the job; the offer of training and development of journalists’ own emotional literacy, so they are better equipped to cope with the emotional challenges in the job; and a point of contact tasked with journalists’ pastoral care within newsrooms who journalists can turn to when needed. It has been suggested that the organisational, and in particular supervisor support, in acknowledging journalism as a high emotional labour job, as well as journalists themselves becoming more aware of the emotional strain they face and its effects, could help change the still common ‘macho’ and ‘thick skin’ narratives which are seen by many interviewees as detrimental to journalists’ well-being. All of these elements, from the offer of training to the importance of supervisor support in encouraging conversations about well-being, have been previously found as essential elements of perceived organisational support (Aldamman et al., 2019; Roemer and Harris, 2018; Roodbari et al., 2021)."

From: Workplace well-being and support systems in journalism: Comparative analysis of Germany and the United Kingdom

Maja Šimunjak, Manuel Menke

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14648849221115205

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The investigative ecosystem - from How Do Investigative Journalists Initiate Their Stories? Exploring the Investigative Ecosystem of Switzerland (Wuergler & Cancela 2022)

"Our analysis will show that the ecosystem is largely reactive—i.e., it is mainly fed with follow-up investigations. It will also show that investigative leads are extremely diverse, ranging from press releases to tip-offs, news reports, leaks and field observations. Furthermore, any of these leads may trigger not just a single investigation but also a series of reactions, which in turn feed the investigative ecosystem. We call this the “self-feeding” property, or “feedback loop” of the investigative ecosystem. In each section, we will compare the results of our corpus analysis with interview data on journalists’ views of how investigative journalism should ideally be done. This additional data suggests that journalists consider many of their lead-finding strategies to be a “lesser evil” that helps them cope with the constraints they face in their daily practice."

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"The Ofcom study showed that news organisations are having to compete with non-journalist TikTokers as a news source on the platform. For those who consume news on TikTok, their main source is other people they follow (44%), followed by friends and family (32%) and then news organisations (24%). The most popular official news sources on TikTok include Sky News, the BBC and ITV."

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All experiments concluded in a misalignment between current content production and the ‘user needs’ that resonate most with audiences. In all cases, newspapers were over-producing breaking news and under-producing news through the prism readers wanted. An appetite for a more educational way of storytelling was prominent throughout. On a publisher-by-publisher level, we also saw a desire for more inspirational content, or content designed to divert readers or give them a new perspective.

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Walkthrough of turning a question into an advanced search

Searching for an image on Instagram at a particular place and date

Searching for info about a YouTube video outside YouTube

Searching for images from a deleted Instagram account (-instagram)

from Henk Van Ess’s video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_LPGC0atJo&feature=youtu.be

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Slides from Alison Gow’s presentation at JournalismAI, Dec 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57bbITvIUkU&feature=emb_logo

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Slides from Alison Gow’s presentation at JournalismAI, Dec 2020

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Huge wealth of Rishi Sunak's family not declared in ministerial register  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/27/huge-wealth-of-sunaks-family-not-declared-in-ministerial-register

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An accounts story example from Private Eye

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First Draft’s head of policy and impact, Tommy Shane on truth (and how search engines treat the term differently to facts): 

“Some people may value different methods, rely on different evidence, value different qualifications, speak in different vernaculars, pursue different logics, and meet different needs. In the words of tech journalist and author Cory Doctorow, “we’re not living through a crisis about what is true, we’re living through a crisis about how we know whether something is true.” Part of that crisis stems from not understanding other ways that people know, and why.

”... If we fail to ask these questions, there is a risk that we won’t account for — or respect — the different assumptions people make when seeking knowledge. We may fail to speak across divides and ignore how other people’s needs from information can differ from our own.”

https://medium.com/1st-draft/the-difference-between-the-facts-and-the-truth-59e23c6185d

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“For much of my life, changing something or putting it down, even if it no longer felt right, seemed like a form of failure. Of course, it wasn’t. Making conscious decisions for when to continue in one direction, when to pivot, and when to leave an idea behind make my published stories so much better. This is a process we practice with every story we write at The Pudding and a process we want to share. So here is a rough idea of the cross-roads we reach between idea and published visual essay.” https://pudding.cool/process/pivot-continue-down/

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via https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president/how-this-works

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“The Paros straw men, most of whom come from the Netherlands, operate independently under their own names and issue their own invoices. The opulent agent fees that the clubs pay once the contracts are signed are initially wired to these straw men. Only then is the money divvied up among the accomplices. The straw men in Holland hold on to a tiny portion – between 5 and 7.5 percent, depending on their written agreements with Paros Consulting, while the remaining 90-plus percent is wired to one of the European accounts belonging to Paros Consulting. One of the banks used by the company is in London, another is in Lisbon and a third is with Volksbank in the village of Schaan, Liechtenstein.“ Via: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/football-leaks-follows-the-money-to-agent-wealth-a-1125760.html And second image from: https://theblacksea.eu/stories/football-leaks/football-leaks-the-argentine-connection/

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Via https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/12/17/how-britain-voted-2019-general-election

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Guardian UK election cartogram via https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2019/dec/12/uk-general-election-2019-full-results-live-labour-conservatives-tories 

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Uses of AI in news via https://www.ebu.ch/publications/news-report-2019